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Thanks one and all for your input, I appreciate your votes and comments. I’m considering putting together a collection of color pictures, on CD, of pre-war American custom sporters.

As long as I have you all here how many and what view do you like of rifle pictures? How important is it to see the full length of every rifle? All comments and criticism welcome.

Speaking for myself, I like a full length shot in addition to closeups.

Yea, I am with Mike here, it is nice to see the full rifle together with closer details. Above, I would say the middle one is the least important one.

Full length is critical to me. I like wood and I want to see the stock, preferably both sides unless space constrained, after that I'd like closer detail shots. Like Brent said, of the 3 above, the middle shot has BY FAR the least appeal to me, although I don't need to see background, the first full length pic could be margined just past the end of barrel and stock as far as I'm concerned which would also show a bit more detail.

BTW, that's the first time I've seen such a sight set up on a Springfield, who did that one?

You have to have full length shots to get a feel for the overall lines, balance and proportions.

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Originally posted by GeoffM24:
You have to have full length shots to get a feel for the overall lines, balance and proportions.

This I agree with.
I am also an action nut so i have to see a close up of the top of the action if there is anything unique about it. In the case of your Springfield a close up of the Lyman cocking piece sight installation would be appreciated.

I am with Ted Thorn as l think the only difference is with the light/dark shading of the pictures.

I like the full body shots :-)

Thanks for the comments, I’ll take it all under consideration. I’m not sure what I’m going to do next. Since my book came out I have published about a dozen new articles. In a year or two I’ll have enough articles to do another “Small” book like the first one. This will easy for me because PS will publish it. I’m still working on the “Big Book” and trying to improve my photography as well. More then one person has suggest that I make a CD of color pictures showing the pre-war classic rifles, if I did do this it would be without much or any text. The number one complaint I get is not enough pictures and they are in B&W. Still experimenting with color trying to find a picture that will show the natural color of the stock and at the same time be easy on the eyes.